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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Nuklear Infektion is a thrash metal band from Lisbon, Portugal, active since 2012. Their deliberately Germanic misspelling adds toxic intensity to their thrash assault.
Nukular is a black/death metal project from Baden-Baden in the Black Forest, formed in 2024. The project brings radioactive extremity to the famous spa town of southwestern Germany.
Nulla Ratio is a solo black metal project from Curicó, Maule, conceived, recorded, and mixed entirely by the single member Iatros. The project debuted with Fire Wombs in June 2021, followed by Phases in November 2022, the latter released on limited cassette through Cognitio Mors Vincit, with themes centered on death.
Nullam Aquam is a black metal project from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2015. Their Latin name — meaning 'no water' — evokes spiritual and physical desolation.
Nullentropy is a one-man extreme metal project from Nantes, France, rooted in industrial black metal with progressive and electronic elements. Their 2021 concept album Cyber Sulphur tells the story of an AI's rise to sentient divinity, blending extreme metal with saxophone and electronics.
Nullfabrik is a black/speed/thrash metal band from Chelyabinsk, Russia, formed in 2024. Their German name — meaning 'zero factory' — adds industrial nihilism to their high-speed metal.
Nullified is a black/melodic death metal band from Koprivnica, Croatia, formed in 2022. They deliver technically proficient extreme metal from this northern Croatian city.
Nullify Emplacement is a heavy/thrash metal band from Irkutsk, Russia, active since 2018. They deliver strategic thrash from this major East Siberian city near Lake Baikal.
Nullkern is an electronic black metal project from Bubach in the Saarland, active since 2020. The project fuses electronic production with black metal aggression from the Franco-German borderlands.
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